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Property of a Gentleman

Óscar Domínguez

Le Printemps (Composition lithochronique)

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1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

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Property of a Gentleman

Óscar Domínguez

(1906 - 1957)


Le Printemps (Composition lithochronique)

signed O Dominguez (lower right) and dated indistinctly (on the overlap)

oil on canvas

22 ⅝ by 27 ⅝ in.

57.5 by 70.2 cm.

Executed in 1939.


The Asociación en Defensa de Óscar Domínguez, e Isidro Hernández, Curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection (Tenerife), have confirmed the authenticity of this work

Private Collection, France

Savoie Enchères, Chambéry, 15 May 2017, lot 39

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Contemporaine, Le Rêve dans l’Art et la Littérature de l'Antiquité au Surréalisme, 1939

Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Óscar Domínguez, La conquista del mundo por la imagen, 2023, p. 96; p. 97, illustrated in color (dated 1938)

Málaga, Musée Picasso, Óscar Domínguez, 2025, no. 74, p. 130, illustrated in color

Fernando Castro, Óscar Domínguez y el Surrealismo, Madrid, 1978, no. 68, p. 127, illustrated

José Carlos Guerra Cabrera, Óscar Dominguez: Obra, contexto y tragedia, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2020, p. 53, illustrated in color 

Ángeles García, “El feroz surrealismo olvidado de Óscar Domínguez cotiza al alza,” El País, 19 May 2023, illustrated in color (dated 1938)

José Carlos Guerra Cabrera, Óscar Dominguez. Obra, contexto y tragedia, 2ª edición, corregida y ampliada, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2026, p. 60, illustrated in color